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SUMMARY:Building Better Care–Developing a Health Care Quality Index
DESCRIPTION:About this On Demand Training\n\nBuilding Better 
 Care-Developing a Health Care Quality IndexThis session will 
 display two use cases to address challenges of Health 
 Equity:  Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue 
 Cross NC) sought input and collaboration from a "coalition 
 of the willing" key stakeholders to address inequities in 
 its members’ health care and in the state as a whole. 
 Anthem uses Data and Advanced Analytics to close disparity 
 care gaps to improve quality and equity.  This course 
 highlights development of a Health Care Equity Index--a tool 
 to help identify opportunities to improve health equity in a 
 health plan\, monitor progress toward closing disparities and 
 help communities and the state meet health care equity 
 goals--as well as challenges and lessons learned.\nClick 
 here to access the Quality Innovation Series registration 
 page to register or review the full course content.\nWhat 
 You Will Learn\n\nAssess data on race\, ethnicity and 
 language and social determinants of health.    Develop a 
 Health Care Disparity Index to guide future value-based care 
 payment models.Strategies for partnering with providers\, 
 policymakers and community leaders to create a "coalition of 
 the willing" for targeted action to improve health care 
 equity.Click here to access the Quality Innovation 
 Series registration page to register or review the full 
 course content.\nResource: NCQA's Health Equity 
 webpage.\nWho Should Attend\n\nHealth Care Policy 
 Makers  Health Care and Community Leadership  Payors and 
 Providers Seeking Value Based CareFaculty\n\n Qi Zhou\, 
 MD\, BM\, MBA\, MHCMQi Zhou is Vice President Enterprise 
 Quality Strategy and Management at Anthem.  He is 
 responsible for the enterprise quality oversight for all 
 lines of business in quality strategy development to elevate 
 the enterprise performance in quality and health equity. 
  Qi has over two decades of leadership in quality 
 performance improvement and health informatics at Tufts 
 Health Plan\, UPMC\, BCBSMA\, and BCBSNC.  He led diverse 
 functional teams and developed health outcomes and equity 
 focused performance measurement systems to support 
 population health\, patient safety\, member experience\, Star 
 ratings and business growth.  \n In addition to quality 
 performance improvement\, Qi leads efforts in health equity 
 through his involvement in the organizational Diversity 
 Equity Inclusion (DEI) and community organizations.  He 
 served the board member of the Mass Health Data Consortium 
 and a steering committee member at the Tufts Clinical 
 Translational Science as well as NQF CQMC .   \n Qi 
 graduated from Shanghai Medical University School of 
 Medicine\, Bryant University Business School and Harvard 
 School of Public Health.   \n \nJohn Lumpkin\, MD\, 
 MPHJohn R. Lumpkin\, MD\, MPH is President of the Blue 
 Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation since 
 April 2019 and Vice President\, Drivers of Health Strategy 
 for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. He also 
 currently serves on the board of directors of the Foundation 
 for Food & Agriculture Research and as chair of Digital 
 Bridge\, a multi-sector forum to collaborate on solutions for 
 a nationally consistent and sustainable approach to using 
 electronic health data. \nMost recently\, John served as 
 Senior Vice President\, Programs for the Robert Wood Johnson 
 Foundation (RWJF) Before joining RWJF in 2003\, he served as 
 director of the Illinois Department of Public Health for 
 12 years. John is a member of the National Academy of 
 Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing\, 
 American College of Emergency Physicians\, and the American 
 College of Medical Informatics. Among his previous 
 leadership positions\, he is past chairman of the board of 
 the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital\, as well as past 
 chairman of the National Committee on Vital and Health 
 Statistics. His many distinctions and honors include the 
 Arthur McCormack Excellence and Dedication in Public Health 
 Award from the Association of State and Territorial Health 
 Officials\, as well as the Jonas Salk Health Leadership 
 Award. He earned his MD and BMS degrees from Northwestern 
 University Medical School and his MPH from the University of 
 Illinois School Of Public Health. He was also the 
 first African-American trained in emergency medicine in 
 the country after completing his residency at the University 
 of Chicago. \nContinuing Education\n\nIn support of 
 improving patient care\, the National Committee for Quality 
 Assurance is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council 
 for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)\, the Accreditation 
 Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)\, the American Nurses 
 Credentialing Center (ANCC)\, the American Academy of 
 Physician Assistants (AAPA)\, the American Psychological 
 Association (APA)\, and the Association of Social Work Boards 
 (ASWB) to provide Interprofessional Continuing 
 Education for the healthcare team. \nThis educational 
 activity is approved for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 
 Credit™. \nThis educational activity is approved for 1.0 
 nursing contact hours.*\nThis live course grants 1.0 
 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) points for PCMH Certified 
 Content Experts.  \n* Please note – You must attend 
 the entire program to be eligible for total number of 
 contact hours.\nDisclosure of Relevant Financial 
 RelationshipsThe National Committee for Quality Assurance 
 (NCQA) endorses the Standards of the Accreditation Council 
 for Continuing Medical Education which specify that sponsors 
 of continuing medical education activities and presenters at 
 and planners for these activities disclose any relevant 
 financial relationships either party might have with 
 commercial companies whose products or services are 
 discussed in educational presentations.\nFor sponsors\, 
 relevant financial relationships include large research 
 grants\, institutional agreements for joint initiatives\, 
 substantial gifts\, or other relationships that benefit the 
 institution.  For presenters or planning committee members\, 
 relevant financial relationships include the receipt of 
 research grants from a commercial company\, consultancies\, 
 honoraria\, travel\, or other benefits\, or having a 
 self-managed equity interest in a company\; or having an 
 immediate family member or partner with such a 
 relationship.\nDisclosure of a relationship is not intended 
 to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made 
 to provide participants with information that might be of 
 potential importance to their evaluation of a 
 presentation.\nRelevant financial relationships exist with 
 the following companies/organizations:\nFaculty:\nQi Zhou: 
 None\nJohn Lumpkin: None\nAdditional Planning Committee 
 Members:\nJennifer D'Alessandro : None\nThis program was 
 developed in part by NCQA staff.\nThis program received no 
 commercial support.\n
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